Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neil – League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Alan Moore does a BBC interview on some of his more famous comics – this one is on ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.

President Harry S. Truman

“We all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.” and “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – two quotes from [...]

Lawrence Lessig – Fix Congress First

Lawrence Lessig has moved from activism on Creative Commons issues to activism on fixing Democracy. It boils down to trust. A system of governance without trust can not be an effective Democracy. A system that incorporates an addiction to lobbyists money and electoral campaigns to maintain power and, at the end, retire into the wealthy [...]

Steve Jobs Interview – 2010, All Things Digital

Long, gloves off (in a respectful way) interview with Steve Jobs. Covers a lot of ground and quite interesting.

Andrew Lacis – CO2

“The bottom line is that CO2 is absolutely, positively, and without question, the single most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. It acts very much like a control knob that determines the overall strength of the Earth’s greenhouse effect. Failure to control atmospheric CO2 is a bad way to run a business, and a surefire [...]

Fault Lines – In Deep Water: A Way of Life in Peril

Better late than never

“You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.” Bill Maher

Sea Shepherd

If you believe business as usual will work and you don’t need to do much more than pay your bills and drop your kids off to school, you may want to watch this. Human Governments and Big Business have squeezed out pretty much all that Earth can take and keep on giving. From here on [...]

Sam Shepard on requesting to use his horse for a film shoot, a stuntman, and a cactus

Sam Shepard was offered a role in the early 80′s for a film called The Right Stuff. The film was to be shot in the Mojave Desert of California. One of the reasons Shepard was interested in the film was a chase scene on galloping horses, a man (his character) chasing his wife through the [...]

We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way – time lapse photography

Time lapse photography of night sky. Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo. Source: http://www.wlcastleman.com/